Museum board recounts work on Faber School, Homestead Shack, summer series

During its monthly meeting Monday, H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board discussed an update on improvement at Faber School, the roof on the homestead shack, and reports regarding the summer series 2020 presentations.

The museum board discussed on the Summer Series 2020 being held Saturday, June 6, which would present the unveiling of dinosaur Zuul's head.

The dinosaur, a 20-foot-long plant eater with spikes on its body and a massive club on its tail, was given the name Zuul - Zuul curivastator, or Zuul destroyer of shins, for the club on its tail - due to a resemblance to the ugly dog-like creature Zuul in the 1984 film "Ghostbusters."

Saturday, Aug. 3, the board took steps to improve the schoolhouse at the Great Northern Fairgrounds, cleaning up Faber School along with roofing the museum's Homestead Shack on the fairgrounds, with the roofing done by by Eli Salaphich and his crew.

"We swept, swept and swept again," H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board member Alison Hecker said.

The board said they also cleaned the windows and painted the door in the schoolhouse, and that next step is to plaster the west wall in the Homestead Shack to make sure it won't collapse.

Board Chair Lela Patera said the farm equipment the museum has on the fairgrounds also has to be inventoried, and a date set for a public meeting for the board to draft a memorandum of understanding with the Great Northern Fair Board about use and care of the museum's items on the fairgrounds.

Clack Museum Director Emily Mayer said she will be doing a Faber School presentation, Saturday, Sept. 21, at 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. during Havre Festival Days.

The next day, she said, Sunday, September 22, she will be debuting a new "History Amongst the Headstones" tour, calling it "Tragedy and Tears," at 1 p.m., 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.

"It is not for everybody, if people are really sensitive to human tragedy or if they have little kids with them they might not want to go," Mayer said.

In other business, Mayer said it has been busy at the museum with a lot of people coming in.

The H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board will hold its next regular meeting Monday, Sept. 10, at 6 p.m. at Havre Inn and Suites.